Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) allows for medically stable patients to be discharged (or avoid admission completely) who require a course of intravenous antimicrobial agents. OPAT is a vital scheme that can prevent hospital admissions, reduce a patient’s length of stay in hospital through early discharge, plus reduce the risk of hospital acquired infections.

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If you are thinking about setting up, or currently run an OPAT service, BSAC is hosting several Regional Workshops across the UK: Glasgow (9 June), Birmingham (23 June), Belfast (7 July) and London (14 July), with an additional workshop in Bristol on 21 September.

• BSAC OPAT Initiative overview – Where are we now?
• Exploring antifungal use in OPAT
• The growing complexity of OPAT services and using nurse-filled elastomerics
• Challenges of treating CMV in OPAT
• Experiences in Endocarditis & OPAT

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

All Healthcare professionals

SPEAKERS

• Mark Gilchrist, Consultant Pharmacist Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust & Carolyn Hemsley, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Consultant, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation
• Andrew Seaton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
• Ana Garcia Mingo & Shay Khan, Whittington Hospital
• Cristina Suarez, St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts Health)
• Balram Ratish & Rebecca Steed, GSTT
• John Klein, GSTT
• Sara Murthy, RBHH
• Gurj Sandhu & Aileen Boyd, King College Hospital

For more information, please contact: [email protected]